International standards and policies are clear about women’s right to equality in the enjoyment of all their rights, including rights to access, use, inherit, control and own land.
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Egypt’s Takaful Cash Transfer Program: Impacts and recommendations from the second round evaluation
Egypt’s national cash transfer program, Takaful, and its sister program Karama covered 17 million poor beneficiaries as of 2022, about 16 percent of the Egyptian population.
Global food, fuel, and fertilizer prices have witnessed rapid and significant increase in recent months, driven largely by the fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine and associated sanctions im-posed on Russia.
The long partnership between the Government of Egypt and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) began in the late 1970s but became much more active with the launch of IFPRI’s Egypt Strategy Support Program (ESSP) in 2016.
Over the past two decades Indonesia has undergone a major economic transformation including reducing the poverty rate by more than half to a current level of about 10% and becoming the 10th largest economy in the world.
Investments in adolescent health have the potential to influence the future course of global health by improving the health and nutritional status of adolescents themselves, their life trajectories in adulthood, and the lives of their future child
Indonesia
Indonesian agricultural R&D spending declined steadily in the decade leading to 2017 (in inflation-adjusted terms).
Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations
Egypt has been providing cash to poor households through its first conditional cash transfer program, Takaful and Karama, a social protection program run by the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), since March 2015.
One and a half billion people still live in fragile, conflict affected areas. People in these countries are about twice as likely to be malnourished and to die during infancy as people in other developing countries.
Governments in Asia used grain price stabilization as a major policy instrument when they began to promote the Green Revolution in the 1960s.
Market institutions
This policy brief is designed to help policymakers and practitioners understand the financial services needed by the poor.
Banking on the poor
This policy brief is designed to help policymakers and practitioners understand the financial services needed by the poor.
This paper uses a panel data of 347 households in Egypt to measure changes in household consumption between 1997 and 1999 and to identify causes behind the changes.
Despite achieving a significant cost reduction over the past two decades, the absolute cost of food subsidies in Egypt is still high relative to the benefits received by the poor.
The calorie-income demand elasticity is an important parameter in the development literature and in the policy arena.
Household food security is an important measure of well-being.